This gifted but unfortunate genius, whose name will always be cherished by the lovers of true literature, died in this city
sixteen years ago the present month, and was buried in a private grave-yard attached to the Westminster Presbyterian Church,
corner of Fayette and Green Streets. No stone, not even a crude stake, marks the resting place of the author of the
“Raven” and “The Bells.” The sexton alone knows the spot where sleep the remains of Edgar A. Poe.

It is always pleasant to chronicle suitable memorials to the illustrious dead, and we are, therefore, pleased to learn of an
effort by an appreciative class of our community properly to honor the name of the poet. At a meeting of the Public School
Teachers’ Association of Baltimore, held at the Western High School, on Saturday, 7th inst., a committee was appointed to
arrange for the early erection of a becoming monument over the dust of one whose early history was intimately identified with this
city, where not a few of his former associates and friends still live. The movement, we need not add, is an exceedingly
commendable one, and has our best wishes for its complete success.

A short time since we drew attention to an effort, instituted by the Teachers’ Association in Baltimore, to honor the
memory of this gifted poet, by the erection of a suitable monument over his remains in the old Westminster church yard, in this
city. We are pleased to observe the hearty endorsement of this movement by the press throughout the country — in
illustration of which we refer out readers to the following generous article from Thursday’s Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph. Trifling exertion in other cities would soon swell the contributions to a sum sufficient for the construction of
a memorial at once creditable to the donors and ornamental to the city.

A MONUMENT TO EDGAR ALLAN POE

We are glad to perceive that an attempt has been originated in Baltimore to erect a monument to the memory of Edgar Allan Poe.
Of the history of the life of that most gifted of all American poets, all our people are familiar, not only through a short and
truthful record, but also from a garbled and malicious biography by R. W. Griswold. His life was one mass of contradiction: he
was dissipated and generous, ennobled in his thoughts, luxurious in his ideas, yet followed by poverty to his grave. Whatever
opinion may be entertained in regard to his personal conduct, no one can deny to him transcendent genius, vivid imagination, and
talents of the highest order. — And yet this man, whose works are the ornaments of our national literature, whose fame is
world-wide, whose name is a household word, reposes to-day in an unmarked grave in an obscure lot, with no monument to tell the
traveller when he treads over the remains of this exalted genius. Had fortune cast his lot in Great Britain, had he been the
subject of a kingdom instead of the citizen of a republic, he would have been the Poet Laureate in life, and lived in marble in
Westminster Abbey forever after death, — Shall it be said that republics are ungrateful to their literati as well as their
political officers? In monarchies the government honors the talented, but in republics it is necessary that private generosity
should perpetuate te memory of talent. And we feel assured that, in the case of Poe, noble and munificent responses will come
from all the literati of our land.

It is necessary, in order that we do our duty as a city, that the citizens of Philadelphia subscribe towards this movement.
Poe was one of us, and was an old newspaper man. The press of our city stand ready to do their share of the work, and if others
lend their aid, before long we shall see a stately monument mark the spot where rest the remains of one of our greatest and most
original of authors.

AN INFORMAL MEETING OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION OF BALTIMORE, will be held at the Western Female High
School at 5 o’clock, THIS (MONDAY) P.M., important business, connected with the Poe Monument.

THE POE MONUMENT. — We would remind all of our readers who feel interested in seeing such a monument erected over the
remains of the author of the “Raven” as will be a credit to the city, that a most attractive entertainment is in store
for them to-night in aid of the monument fund, in the form of readings at the Female High School on Fayette Street, near Paca. The
readings will be by the graduates of the institution; and the list of pieces comprises some of the best selections we remember to
have seen in the whole range of the language. So novel and delightful an entertainment cannot fail to crowd the fine hall to
overflowing, and this is the more desirable, because, as we learn on good authority, our sister city, Philadelphia, has led off in
this matter in a way which threatens to throw Baltimore quite in the shade. As this will never do, let every friend of the
monument patronize this entertainment to the utmost.

A READING will be given on the EVENING OF NOVEMBER 10TH by Graduates of the Western Female High School, in the School Building
on Fayette street, near Green, to aid in the erection of a monument in memory of Edgar A. Poe. Tickets of admission 50 cents each;
can be procured at McCaffrey’s Music store, No. — W. Baltimore street, or from any of the teachers of the public
schools.